The Open Source

The Platform is on solid Microsoft web servers and was built to be extensible for easier content management. Almost any feature of the platform can be enhanced. We can build your own custom extensions or choose from thousands already built.

Extendable

The Platform is built on robust Microsoft web servers and designed to be extensible for easier content management. Almost any feature of the platform can be enhanced, including companion iOS and Android. Existing custom extensions are available to be added at low cost.

Secure

The Platform is built on robust Microsoft web servers and designed to be extensible for easier content management. Almost any feature of the platform can be enhanced, including companion iOS and Android. Existing custom extensions are available to be added at low cost.

Scalable

The solutions we build can scale to meet almost any functionalities needed. Many solutions have been made to serve hundreds, thousands or millions of users for the past 15 years that has proven time and again that it can meet the challenge.

The Open Source

The Platform is on solid Microsoft web servers and was built to be extensible for easier content management. Almost any feature of the platform can be enhanced. We can build your own custom extensions or choose from thousands already built.

Extendable

The Platform is built on robust Microsoft web servers and designed to be extensible for easier content management. Almost any feature of the platform can be enhanced, including companion iOS and Android. Existing custom extensions are available to be added at low cost.

Secure

The DNN® Platform has a strong track record when it comes to security. The Platform undergoes dozens of security scans and audits by customers and partners around the globe who work with our security team to ensure we pass even the most stringent security requirements.

Scalable

The solutions we build can scale to meet almost any functionalities needed. Many solutions have been made to serve hundreds, thousands or millions of users for the past 15 years that has proven time and again that it can meet the challenge.

Technology Architecture

In the DNN Platform architecture, multiple websites can be created on top of an underlying web application framework. Each site consists of multiple pages and mini-applications called modules that provide specific functionalities such as e-commerce, blog, news and more or feed companion mobile apps on iOS and Android. These modules may appear on multiple pages of the same or different sites Making DNN head and shoulder above any other CMS in the market.

The DNNPlatform runs on the Microsoft web stack, at home on premises or in the cloud.

Creating modules and extensions

Modules are one of the primary extension points in the DNN Platform. They are mini-applications built using the DNN web application framework. Modules can be as complex and feature-rich as you desire; the only limits are your imagination. Developers can use a variety of module-building tools and techniques suitable for all experience levels, making our solutions perfect for startups with great ideas.

Our solutions run on the Microsoft web stack, while, the core is open-source and extensible the extensions can be commercial and therefore IP ownership is assured.

Or explore the thousands of extensions that are already available.

DNN Forge

DNN Store

Advanced Skinning and Template Engine

The platform makes it easy for our designers to develop skins and templates that customise bespoke designs into compelling websites, applications or companion iOS and Android Apps. Our designers can create layouts using Photoshop to visualise and later turned into HTML, CSS and JavaScript, or to develop the design as a set of ASP.Net user controls (ASCX). Once complete the design can be packaged in as extensions for easy validation, distribution and installation..

Provider based platform

The solutions are built from the ground up to be extensible. Most of the platform is implemented using a model based on providers, extensions that replace existing functionality in the core solution. This model enables super users and administrators, with the most advanced level of permissions – to quickly change base functionalities of the solution such as authentication. Key types of providers are the rich text editor, authentication, membership, search, logging, and caching. This ability allows the platform to be one of the most extensible CMS in the market suitable for sites with millions of users.

IDEAS

Multiple device contented managed experiences. There are many ways to manage them all, however, we think ours is one of the best.

Our CMS approach makes mobile a core component of your digital strategy using DNN platform. You will be able to deliver contextually relevant, brand-consistent experiences everywhere your customers go. Create mobile websites and apps that look and perform great across every device. And manage the entire customer journey from a single place — so your marketing isn’t just multi-channel, it’s omni-channel.

Key Features of DNN Platform content management

Responsive design:

Create websites that automatically respond to each viewer’s device type, so you can deliver a consistent experience across desktop, tablet, and mobile using a single set of content and code.

Mobile-specific sites:

Tailor the web experience specifically to the needs of your mobile users and ensure easy access, readability, and navigation even on the smallest screens.

Mobile apps:

Create engaging mobile apps that customers will love. Manage the content from within The Content Management System and deliver and publish.

Integrated content delivery

Streamline the delivery of content across all channels and make updates without relying on IT, so your customers always have relevant, personalized experiences on their desktop as well as their mobile devices.

SCAFFOLD

Creative Storytelling

CMS systems were built by technicians so to stir up the storytelling ideas … and here is a list of tools that our CMS system can give you to excite your creative ideas for storytelling :

TEXT

Inverted pyramid

Narrative

Step-by-step guide

Q&A

Top 10 list

Checklist

Fact facts

Bios

By the numbers

Quiz

Checklist

Timeline

Glossary

What to link to?

MULTIMEDIA

video

Crowdsourced on Youtube

Audio excerpt

Podcast

Audio slideshow

Webcam

Live webcast

Animated graphic / game

Interactive timeline

DATA

Infographic /table/ chart

Searchable database

VISUALS

Photo or photo essay

Share on Pinterest?

Map

Diagram

Illustration

SOCIAL /INTERACTIVE

How would you post on Facebook?

How would you tweet this?

Opportunity for #hashtag?

online poll

Discussion, via blog comments

Discussion or crowdsourcing, Via
Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/etc.

Storify Tweets/Facebook posts?

Live chat

Live tweets

FourSquare

MeetUp opportunity?

Interactive quiz

Contest

DELIVER

Traditionally writers have used Scaffolding Strategies for breaking up the writing process into chunks and then providing a tool, or structure, with each chunk.

Building a web site is also all about the techniques used to make learning process easier. Writers task can be simplified by using the tried and tested Scaffolding

strategies like:

Show and Tell

Showing your users the outcome (products and services) before they are told about the finer details. Modeling the thought process as the user goes deeper into the site by clever CMS techniques.

Tap into Prior Knowledge

Tap into the end user’s own experiences, hunches and ideas about the content and the concept of the site. So to have them relate and connect to the content through their own life experiences. Easy access to knowledge base via clever blog, news articles and support cases as lists is an excellent approach.

Give time to Voice and Motion.

A picture is worth a thousand words and a movie is worth a thousand pages. So providing as much of voice and visual motion as you can only help your users to understand and remember your offerings.

Pause, Ask Questions, Pause, Review

This is a wonderful way to check occasionally as you build your content and ensure that your users are following the story you are telling.